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What are some aspects of UI/UX seen in modern websites that really grind your gears? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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I wish to understand what elements or aspects of the design of modern websites the end users are annoyed from. Though you are free to express your personal opinions, it would be even more insightful if you could provide objective criticism and suggestions for alternative implementations so that I may incorporate the same in my current and future projects to make them as user friendly as possible.

Some criticisms I have encountered a while back include:

Switches being basically checkboxes with more ambiguous active state
Scrolling animations that prohibit user from linearly scrolling through the page

Make sure that the opinion is not

Related to business/legal matters e.g. Cookie consent notices, ad banners etc.
Too vague e.g. Poor website layout
Highlighting objectively bad practices e.g. Lack of accessibility features

I recognise I could have followed a design system for this question, but I want to understand the situation from the perspective of the end users to see if they have a differing view on what a convenient user experience should be like.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

websites that fuck with scrolling in any way
autoplaying videos
sticky videos
developer focused websites without darkmode
popups when you move your cursor out of the window of the website
unprompted popups
links that break middle mouse button clicks for opening in a new tab
burger menus on an otherwise rather empty website, or pure content site on desktop
gigantic text, where 2 rows take up my entire screen, especially bad on larger monitors
that relatively new sign in with google popup on the top right on some websites
low defaults for amount per page selectors in product lists or similar, the default should depend on how many products fit on my screen, not some arbitrary value
slow loading content, or other requests that take more than ~100ms. With a modern internet connection this shouldn't happen
(not cookie banners in general, but) overly large cookie banners, also the legitimate interest toggle which, most of the time, is enabled by default (you might have interest in my data, but its definitely not legitimate); or cookie banners which block you from reading the site before clicking anything, (I know this is related to legal stuff it is not legally necessary to make invasive cookie banners)

Other people have already mentioned some of these as well

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I hate having to toggle off legitimate interests off vendors too. The very premise of this option has been anti-consumer from the beginning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I hate when a website allows me to deselect corporate partners who have access to my data, but rather than deselecting all of them it offers me the chance to manually select 600 or 800 one at a time.